aristotle
...es through all of these things making it of nature. A car, bed or coat are products of art and have no natural way of changing without man. Nature repeats itself also. For example an oak tree seed will produce and oak tree seed and a human being will produce a human being. This is why Aristotle believes that evolution is not possible because how could something inferior beget something that is said to be superior. Nature is also said to be the shape and form of things. Since a man comes from a man that is nature. A bed doesn’t come from a bed but from a man. But since wood comes from nature, being earth, the shape of the wood would also be nature. Since a tree starts out as a sprout and grows into a tree, it could be said that it is growing towards something and therefore shape is nature. Nature is both form and matter. Matter is formed by ends and means. There are two crafts that control matter according to Aristot...